County-level predictors of US drug overdose mortality: a systematic review

M Cano, S Oh, P Osborn, SA Olowolaju… - Drug and alcohol …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background This systematic review summarized published literature on county-level
predictors of drug overdose mortality in the United States (US). Methods Peer-reviewed …

Characteristics of fatal poisonings among infants and young children in the United States

CE Gaw, AE Curry, KC Osterhoudt, JN Wood… - …, 2023 - publications.aap.org
Video Abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Fatal poisoning is a preventable cause
of death among young children. Understanding factors surrounding these deaths will inform …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of co-ingestion effects on poisoning patterns, drug-drug interactions, and adverse outcomes in acute toxic exposure

AF Sharif, RY Alshammari, FT Alghamdi, SA Almutairi… - Toxicology Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Multiple toxic exposures are increasing nowadays. In cases of acute poisoning involving
multiple agents, there is a potential for additional toxicity that goes beyond the effects and …

United States Schools and the Opioid Crisis: Charting New Directions

SB Harrod, SE Harrison, SD McQuillin… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background The opioid epidemic has created unprecedented challenges in the United
States (US), including hundreds of thousands of lives lost to overdose in the past five years …

Unintentional poisoning exposures: how does modeling the opening of child-resistant containers influence children's behaviors?

BA Morrongiello… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Objective Unintentional poisoning in the home is a risk for children. Over-the-counter
medicinal products in child-resistant containers (CRC) are common causes of pediatric …

Physiologically based modeling reveals different risk of respiratory depression after fentanyl overdose between adults and children

S Chakravartula, B Thrasher, J Mann… - Clinical and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a rapid increase in pediatric mortality rate from prescription and illicit opioids, there
is limited research on the dose‐dependent impact of opioids on respiratory depression in …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors for pediatric intoxications in the prehospital setting. A geospatial survey

CL Kienbacher, G Wei, JM Rhodes, H Herkner… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Socioeconomic factors and the COVID-19 pandemic influence children's
physical and mental health. We aimed to investigate the association between a census …

Trends in opioid exposures among young children reported to United States poison centers from 2016 to 2023

PE Rosen, C Ramdin, J Leonard, BE Ruck… - Clinical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The objective of this study was to update and expand on previous studies of
opioid exposures among young children reported to America's Poison Centers, and to …

Addressing drug overdose deaths in pediatrics: Where do we go from here?

MH Renny, M Cerdá - Pediatric research, 2021 - nature.com
Drug overdose deaths continue to rise in the USA. 1, 2 The majority of drug overdose deaths
are in adults, 3 and therefore, studies investigating overdose mortality rates in young …

A Series of 8 Illicit Fentanyl Intoxication Deaths in Infants and Toddlers

GA Vincent, J Nunez, JR Gill - The American Journal of Forensic …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
A Series of 8 Illicit Fentanyl Intoxication Deaths in Infants and Toddlers Page 1 A Series of 8
Illicit Fentanyl Intoxication Deaths in Infants and Toddlers Gregory A. Vincent, MD, Jacqueline …